Radeon RX 560 Mobile and Radeon HD 7870 - video card comparison

Radeon RX 560 Mobile

Radeon HD 7870

Architecture

Polaris (2016−2019)

GCN (2011−2017)

GPU code name

Polaris 11

Pitcairn XT

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2017

March 2012

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1275 MHz

Core clock speed

1175 MHz

1000 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,462 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

3,000 million

2800 Million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1024

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

175 Watt

Texture fill rate

58.97

80.00

Memory type

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

4800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

153.6 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

Eyefinity

HDMI

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (11_1)

OpenCL

2.0

1.2

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

FreeSync